Ex Parte JAP

853 So.2d 280 (2002)

Ex parte J.A.P., a minor child.

(In re J.A.P. v. STATE of Alabama).

1010263.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 6, 2002.

Rehearing Denied November 27, 2002.

Joe W. Morgan III, Birmingham, for petitioner.

William H. Pryor, Jr., atty. gen., and Andy S. Poole and Kristi L. Deason, asst. attys. gen., for respondent.

WOODALL, Justice.

A delinquency petition was filed in the Jefferson Juvenile Court, charging J.A.P., a 14-year-old male, with the attempted first-degree rape of his 9-year-old half sister, L.P. The charge was based on allegations that J.A.P. attempted to commit the offense…